Built on St Nicholas’ Square planned by architect Pyotr Yeropkin (first half of 18th century). Two-storey church with separately standing four-tier bell-tower was built by architect Savva Chevakinsky...

St Isaac’s Cathedral was built and rebuilt four times over the first 150 years of the history of St Petersburg. The first wooden church was laid on the birthday of Peter the Great (30 May Old Style),...

Peter the Great commissioned Swedish architect Nicodemus Tessin to design a cathedral for the Order of St Andrew (1724). Originally intended to be built on the spit of Vasilyevsky Island. Tessin prep...

The first place of worship in the “Mokrushki” district – a low-lying area subject to flooding – on Petersburg Island was a wooden Church of St Nicholas (1708). Replaced by the Dormition Cathedral (17...

The original Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was built from stone with a high bell-tower by Mikhail Zemtsov on Nevsky Prospekt (1733–37). Consecrated in the presence of Empress Anna Ioannovna. M...

The Cottage was built in the Gothic Revival style by Adam Menelaws between 1826 and 1829. Intended as a place of summer relaxation for the family of Tsar Nicholas I, the building stands in the easter...

In 1714, large-scale construction work began at Peterhof. Under the personal supervision of Peter the Great , a “small palace” called Monplaisir was built right on the seashore. Monplaisir paved the ...

Francesco Fontana began building up the south-east of Kotlin Island (1712). Besides the three-storey Palace of Peter I (burnt down in the late 18th century), one of the first buildings on the island ...

Large three-storey stone house with single-storey side wings built for the favourite sister of Peter the Great – Tsarevna Natalia Alexeyevna (1710–14). One of the first stone constructions in the cit...